KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- Two Russians and a French cosmonaut returned to Earth on Saturday from the Mir space station, which may be dumped next year if Moscow fails to raise funds to keep its 13-year-old orbital laboratory running
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- Two Russians and a French cosmonaut returned to Earth on Saturday from the Mir space station, which may be dumped next year if Moscow fails to raise funds to keep its 13-year-old orbital laboratory running.
A spokesman for Mission Control in the town of Korolyov outside Moscow said a landing capsule with Russians Viktor Afanasyev and Sergei Avdeyev and Frenchman Jean-Pierre Haignere, possibly Mir's last full-time crew, safely touched ground at 0035 GMT.
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